1. Gavin McInnes, head of the extreme right Proud Boys group, claims "Nazis are not a thing, Islam is a thing." Well, they're both things, but they ain't the same thing. What he actually wants to do is minimize the danger of white supremacy, of course.
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2. The fact is that right-wing extremists have killed far more people than radical Islamist extremists in this country in recent memory--and of all the different types of right-wing extremists, white supremacists kill the most (by far). 
3. Gavin McInnes asks his listeners to "imagine" a number of things: White supremacist training camps, white supremacist harming women, white supremacists planning school shootings. I don't have to "imagine" any of those things, because I know all of those things exist.
4. White supremacist trainings? They've existed for decades, from the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord in the 80s to the paramilitary training of American Front in the 2010s to Atomwaffen today.
5. White supremacists engaging in violence against women, including their own women? That happens routinely. I have *hundreds* of examples of this sort of thing. One that always sticks in my mind is the attempted murder of Amanda Crow in Arizona.
6. And white supremacists planning school shootings? In 2016 in my own home town a young white supremacist plotted a mass shooting at his high school. And recently in New Mexico, a white supremacist conducted one. adl.org/blog/new-mexic…
7. Yes, "Nazis" & "Islam" are both things. But they are not the SAME thing. One is one of the world's major religions. There are Islamist extremists but they don't characterize the religion as a whole. The other is a fringe ideology CENTERED on, built on, predicated on HATE.
